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PARENTS, trade unionists and pupils rallied today to fight the loss of 450 teaching posts in Glasgow.
At its budget meeting in February, Glasgow City Council approved swingeing cuts to education, including cutting jobs of all co-ordinators in its MCR Pathways mentoring programme for young people, its Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) initiative, as well as axing teaching posts.
Some 172 posts are expected to go this year alone, and 450 teaching posts over the term of the three-year budget plan.
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK